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Business Risk Intelligence: A Necessity Across the Enterprise

Josh Lefkowitz, CEO at Flashpoint

While the Deep & Dark Web has yielded important security considerations for some
time, it’s really been in the last 18 months that the industry has begun to understand
how critical the intelligence gleaned from the underbelly of the Internet can support
business functions across the enterprise.

As more companies have started proactively working to understand these opaque
regions of the Internet more effectively, many decision-makers and stakeholders have
recognized that intelligence derived from the Deep & Dark Web can help inform
decisions, protect their organizations, and ultimately mitigate risks.

The primary challenges that exist are, one, that while the Deep & Dark Web isn’t all
malicious, there are risks for companies that try to explore it without proper expertise.
And two, intelligence and data from the Deep & Dark Web have in the past only been
used for specific security and intelligence teams, even though there are many groups
within an organization that can benefit from Deep & Dark Web intelligence to shore up
their understanding and awareness of risk.

The desire to overcome these challenges explains why Business Risk Intelligence (BRI)
has been rapidly adopted by some of the world’s largest organizations over the last
year. BRI broadens the scope of cyber intelligence beyond threat detection to provide
relevant context to business units not traditionally afforded the benefits of intelligence
derived from the Deep & Dark Web.

While the integration of cyber intelligence into an organization's security posture has
long been considered fundamental, traditional applications tend to serve solely
cybersecurity teams and are therefore insufficient for fully-addressing security needs
across other business functions.

As the overlap between today’s cyber and physical threat landscapes continues to
expand and create unprecedented challenges, many organizations are recognizing the
critical need to inform key stakeholders far beyond what has been possible with the
cyber intelligence status quo.

BRI surpasses the myopic, long-held industry standards for cyber intelligence
applications to inform decision-making, improve preparation, and mitigate risk
throughout an entire organization.

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